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this is michigan we are talking about. i know that 23 other states already have passed right to work laws but michigan is the birth place of the organized labor movement. is this the legacy you want to leave for the state that gave us the uaw and helped revive the u.s. auto industry. you said this new law is about freedom in the work place. that is only true if you mean the employers who are free from the checks and balances of the work ter workers they ploy. the freedom to support themselves and their families thanks to fair wages and employer-based health care and retirement benefits or the freedom for workers to have time to spend with their families thanks to the 40-hour workweek and paid holidays and family medical leave. all workers relates that we now take for granted but that we wouldn't have at all if it weren't for unions. that's why you are so off base with your claim that the right to work law would only affect the 17.5% of michigan workers that are still union members, because the rights that unions fight for
this is michigan we are talking about. i know that 23 other states already have passed right to work laws but michigan is the birth place of the organized labor movement. is this the legacy you want to leave for the state that gave us the uaw and helped revive the u.s. auto industry. you said this new law is about freedom in the work place. that is only true if you mean the employers who are free from the checks and balances of the work ter workers they ploy. the freedom to support themselves...
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according to a survey done by the university of michigan and thompson reuters, the consumer sentiment index is at a five-year high at 82.6 in october, 82.7 in november. whether you want to go with 72.2 or 82.7, you just got to ask out of what? out of 100? 82 what? it doesn't really work like that. it's like celsius and fahrenheit of consumer economics. all quantifying an emotion. really it's about how we as consumers are feeling. what tangible information can we derive from that. back with me making change at walmarts dan slad man. carmen wong and heather mcghee. carmen, what is this consumer index and why is it so important. >> when the index is high, we want to buy. that's what wall street wants to hear. just to give a comparison. when the recession was absolutely at its worst, consumer confidence was in the 20s. when at its best before the recession, it was in the 90s. you're close when you come to 100. you want the highest number possible. what is this that we're measuring? we're measuring our ability and sense to go out and spend more money. this is really what the confidence is
according to a survey done by the university of michigan and thompson reuters, the consumer sentiment index is at a five-year high at 82.6 in october, 82.7 in november. whether you want to go with 72.2 or 82.7, you just got to ask out of what? out of 100? 82 what? it doesn't really work like that. it's like celsius and fahrenheit of consumer economics. all quantifying an emotion. really it's about how we as consumers are feeling. what tangible information can we derive from that. back with me...
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and politics of michigan right now? this is where all eyes on the auto industry and gas prices at the same time. >> the optics in politics is the president is very smartly inserting himself in the middle of a republican primary in michigan calling for the people, the michigan an anders, the people of -- let detroit fall or fail in the auto industry. but the fact still remains that, you know, the issue with gm is separate from the issue of ford in the sense that gm is still owned by the government. it still has unions owning 17% of its stock. so the american -- >> which i'm comfortable with. if corporations are people, surely unions are people. >> sure. >> okay. >> i would oi owe the only problem i have with that, you don't kick out the kurnd bond holders to insert new ones. we can have that conversation later. the president is doing the right polar kind of politics here that have an impact on tuesday's primary and how the republicans respond to that, i think, little bit weak right now to be honest. i think there is a be
and politics of michigan right now? this is where all eyes on the auto industry and gas prices at the same time. >> the optics in politics is the president is very smartly inserting himself in the middle of a republican primary in michigan calling for the people, the michigan an anders, the people of -- let detroit fall or fail in the auto industry. but the fact still remains that, you know, the issue with gm is separate from the issue of ford in the sense that gm is still owned by the...
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ask anybody in the state of michigan. her numbers were very low as a result of what she could do for that state. romney's op-ed, written in 2008, four years ago. the point he was making should about not be lost. labor reform. the labor system in the auto industry is out of control. >> not out of control anymore. >> but it was. but that's the point he was making at the time. the time, in 2008, out of control. here is the same in michigan. when auto workers working one shift, they are democrats. when they are working three shifts, they are voting republican. >> these people are what supports the local economy. >> the cost of cars, people can't afford these new -- these vehicles which we see car costs upward of $30,000, people have got to have income, we'll continue our conversation about cars and also about energy policy as it's related to our connection to cars. thank you, con man clarke, for joining me. we'll keep our eyes on detroit. in the next hour, we'll look at a new obama administration rule that might drinker the n
ask anybody in the state of michigan. her numbers were very low as a result of what she could do for that state. romney's op-ed, written in 2008, four years ago. the point he was making should about not be lost. labor reform. the labor system in the auto industry is out of control. >> not out of control anymore. >> but it was. but that's the point he was making at the time. the time, in 2008, out of control. here is the same in michigan. when auto workers working one shift, they are...
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and there was also michigan passing a right to work and making them the 24th state with such laws. the events of this year can leave anyone with mixed feelings and uncertainty about the future of organized labor, but that is looking at the glass half empty and in direct opposition of what labor has stood for in this country, hunkering down and getting the job down. uaw president bob king understands very well that the fight is far from over. >> we are going to continue until people know what this ideological agenda is. it is about suppression of women's rights, labor rights and immigrant rights and it is really about what kind of america do we want. the only way to win is to have a broad coalition to rebuild a social justice movement in the united states. >> bob gets it, but this year does not signal an end to the labor union, but labor is regrouping and reforming using the setbacks and the defeats as a springboard as renewed and more inclusive action. organized labor can no longer be just auto workers or electricians, be us manyt include hotel and retail and domestic workers as we
and there was also michigan passing a right to work and making them the 24th state with such laws. the events of this year can leave anyone with mixed feelings and uncertainty about the future of organized labor, but that is looking at the glass half empty and in direct opposition of what labor has stood for in this country, hunkering down and getting the job down. uaw president bob king understands very well that the fight is far from over. >> we are going to continue until people know...
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only 14 clubs pick up the right one and drive it right down the middle of pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. yoo-hoo. hello. it's water from the drinking fountain at the mall. [ male announcer ] great tasting tap water can come from any faucet anywhere. the brita bottle with the filter inside. what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello ? ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense. >>> african-americans will be disproportionately affected by a restricted number of voting laws enacted by states since last year. according to the brennan center, 34 states have introduced legislation that would require voters to show i.d. that means 25% of voting age african-americans that have no current voter i.d. may be disenfranchised on voter day in november. and registration drives and early voting compound the impact on communities of color. that potential problem has sparked action. black leaders have responded from the threat of voter suppression with action. je
only 14 clubs pick up the right one and drive it right down the middle of pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. yoo-hoo. hello. it's water from the drinking fountain at the mall. [ male announcer ] great tasting tap water can come from any faucet anywhere. the brita bottle with the filter inside. what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello ? ally bank. no nonsense. just...
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of michigan law school. the united states supreme court for the first time upholds under the diversity rationale race conscious affirmative action program by a majority of the court. this creates a safe harbor. schools know what they need to do to pass constitutional muster. the reason it was upheld was because it was a holistic consideration of the individual. it could have looked at race neutral alternatives. it treated every individual as an individual. it didn't have a set aside. i want to emphasize that point as well. i think that people often associate affirmative action with quota. >> quotas have not been constitutionally permissible in private institutions for years. title vi of the civil rights act moves -- the equal protection clause. the institution receiving federal funds would run afoul of this if they engaged in a quota. they've not been since 1978. >> there's no sort of black seats or brown seats set aside in a classroom that said this language of gift and grievances still always concerns me b
of michigan law school. the united states supreme court for the first time upholds under the diversity rationale race conscious affirmative action program by a majority of the court. this creates a safe harbor. schools know what they need to do to pass constitutional muster. the reason it was upheld was because it was a holistic consideration of the individual. it could have looked at race neutral alternatives. it treated every individual as an individual. it didn't have a set aside. i want to...
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and in response the women of michigan took to the steps to talk about sexuality on their own terms with the reading of eve ensler's vagina monologues. while that promoted a discussion on female anatomy, a real decision cushion of sex is lacking. if we are deconstructing sex on the house floor, let's do it feminist style. we'll talk about the reform where a large number of americans encounter sex, not the legislature, but pornography. yes, the pornography industry. let's bring porn into this month-long national sex-ed class. here with me on the table is sex educator, kristin, who is author of "the feminist porn book." and jaqueline freedman, author of what the "what you really, really want." and michael eric dyson, sociology professor at georgetown university who earlier said tap that gas about the keystone pipeline apparently foreshadowing the conversation. let me back up to say, it's a little bit odd, probably, to have a conversation about porn on a political show. and yet somehow it doesn't feel odd. talk to me about why you think this is a conversation we are having. >> well, for me
and in response the women of michigan took to the steps to talk about sexuality on their own terms with the reading of eve ensler's vagina monologues. while that promoted a discussion on female anatomy, a real decision cushion of sex is lacking. if we are deconstructing sex on the house floor, let's do it feminist style. we'll talk about the reform where a large number of americans encounter sex, not the legislature, but pornography. yes, the pornography industry. let's bring porn into this...
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so far he's lagged behind and for him to say i'm almost equal in delegates in michigan, he still has fewer votes. people look at the primary and caucus votes and say who came out with more votes. the primary voters are sovereign. they're the ones who control the nomination and the party -- >> why are there unbound, i guess not actually unbound. why are there nonbinding contests at all. like last night, we covered washington and everybody spends money and people take the time and they vote. but then all you're giving them is unbound delegates. why does that exist if it's the sovereignty of the voters in. >> they want to build momentum. mitt romney can say, hey, i won that contest. well, i didn't win any delegates but look at the news coverage. look what everyone is talking about. he's now once again the front-runner. people are saying he's the inevitable nominee. it gives him momentum in the polls. the early part of the contest, which is just ending. momentum is what the game is approximate. >> how super does super tuesday have to be for romney? how many wins does he are to take? >> i
so far he's lagged behind and for him to say i'm almost equal in delegates in michigan, he still has fewer votes. people look at the primary and caucus votes and say who came out with more votes. the primary voters are sovereign. they're the ones who control the nomination and the party -- >> why are there unbound, i guess not actually unbound. why are there nonbinding contests at all. like last night, we covered washington and everybody spends money and people take the time and they...
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. >> congress nan is exactly right and give the governor in michigan some credit. he vetoed it. he is a good republican, wants mitt romney to win, but he did the right thing and we should speak out when republicans speak out on right thing. >> on that veto, that was the kind of bipartisan support for the sort of question of democracy. >> can i say something? today is my aunt's birthday. she died a few months ago. she would have been 101 today. >> wow. >> i -- she lived in arizona. when i was trying to figure out how in the world would she vote. does she have a birth certificate? does they have a money to buy for it, pay for something? that's just an example of the terrible kinds of disenfranchisement. >> "the philadelphia enquirer" front page, a woman who was 91 who voted in every one of the 70 elections at the same polling place. she won't be able to vote. her friends took her to the motor vehicle place to get the new identification, she had to have a marriage license and a birth certificate. but they were both in her maiden name, so they disqualified her and said get a lawyer
. >> congress nan is exactly right and give the governor in michigan some credit. he vetoed it. he is a good republican, wants mitt romney to win, but he did the right thing and we should speak out when republicans speak out on right thing. >> on that veto, that was the kind of bipartisan support for the sort of question of democracy. >> can i say something? today is my aunt's birthday. she died a few months ago. she would have been 101 today. >> wow. >> i -- she...
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anthea butler, susan douglas, chair of the department of communications studies at the university of michigan and back with us is author and anti racist activist tim wise. hi, everybody. >> hi. >> we had a pretty tough morning. we wanted to talk about this cultural phenomenon, this moment of mad men. are you watchers, do love it? why? >> i love it, and i've been watching it since the premiere. and i think what matt weinart has been so depth ft at, walkin this line between the nostalgia, the clothes, cars, and an incredible relief that thank god we're not back there anymore and particularly a nostalgia for the privilege of white men and a disgust with those privileges. >> i love the way that white science managed. tim, this is why i wanted you at the table. in addition to encouraging you to be part of the three-martini lunch. the lead character is not quite what he seems. he appears to be sort of the very imposedment menmen menmem white male privilege. but it seems if he's donning that. and that makes it far more complicated and interesting. >> that may be true. i'm not a watcher of the show,
anthea butler, susan douglas, chair of the department of communications studies at the university of michigan and back with us is author and anti racist activist tim wise. hi, everybody. >> hi. >> we had a pretty tough morning. we wanted to talk about this cultural phenomenon, this moment of mad men. are you watchers, do love it? why? >> i love it, and i've been watching it since the premiere. and i think what matt weinart has been so depth ft at, walkin this line between the...
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because being able to play all day is pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. >>> not since teddy roosevelt has another president been so -- first urban president. president obama -- has called jakarta, new york, las los angeles and chicago, home, but what difference has his presidency made? back with me -- one of the exciting things about president obama being elected is we're going to have this city president, somebody whose life story is connected to the great migration. cities are the great cosmopolitan of the canopy. what can we see now almost four years into an obama presidency and the role of cities in our country? >> i think you see in terms of what he's done, he's put a number of smart birthers. people are focused on transportation, infrastructure, that's one part of the urban experience. just making it more livable on a basic level. but then you also see him trying to replicate things that have worked in other cities. harlem children's zone. trying to expand that out into this promised neighborhoods program. you see a
because being able to play all day is pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. >>> not since teddy roosevelt has another president been so -- first urban president. president obama -- has called jakarta, new york, las los angeles and chicago, home, but what difference has his presidency made? back with me -- one of the exciting things about president obama being elected is we're going to have this city president, somebody whose life story is connected to the great migration....
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senate in 1970 in michigan. so the nerdland crew dug around archives, found this campaign video from her senate bid. it features a very young mitt romney making the case for mom. >> so many of our senators sometimes become so caught up in the political situation that their answer is made politically before the issue is even brought up. why, you could come out with a new bill, and you could decide down the line how everyone is going to vote, mostly on their political background, which party they're for, but she isn't so aligned to a political ideology or a political side of the spectrum that she can't analyze the situation and vote in it and work in it completely candidly. >> mother of four, grandmother of 15, devoted family, a full and varied life. yet lenore romney chooses the rough road, the race against very difficult odds for a seat in the united states senate. why? >> i'll be a voice. i know i'm one voice, but everything starts with one, right? i believe there are millions that feel as that i do. i think i
senate in 1970 in michigan. so the nerdland crew dug around archives, found this campaign video from her senate bid. it features a very young mitt romney making the case for mom. >> so many of our senators sometimes become so caught up in the political situation that their answer is made politically before the issue is even brought up. why, you could come out with a new bill, and you could decide down the line how everyone is going to vote, mostly on their political background, which...
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. ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> we are mormans, and growing up in michigan, that might have seemed unusual or out of place, but i really don't remember it that way. my friends cared more about what sports teams we followed than what church we went to. >> and there you have it. that was the one and only "m" word dropped by the newly minted republican nominee for president. and the speech was anticipated to be a morman coming-out story, that was, in fact, all there was. still with us, nancy giles and joining us is ronald scott, author of "mitt romney: an inside look at the man and his politics." all right. we've talked about latter-day saints and morman on the show before. and i do think certain things are off limits. i think making fun of magic underwear or odd beliefs, religion is quirky. let's put that aside. here's what does feel like it's on the table to me, tax returns and romney saying that he doesn't want his church donations to be clear. attitudes towards gender equality and the way they might have been impacted by his religious beliefs. and ultimatel
. ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> we are mormans, and growing up in michigan, that might have seemed unusual or out of place, but i really don't remember it that way. my friends cared more about what sports teams we followed than what church we went to. >> and there you have it. that was the one and only "m" word dropped by the newly minted republican nominee for president. and the speech was anticipated to be a morman coming-out story,...
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romney who opposed the bailout of gm which would have destroyed a whole lot of the middle class in michigan, but more importantly i think he's endorse it is paul ryan budget, which is the most devastatingly irresponsible budget and unjust budget. they are proposing not only to continue the bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. over 125 each, but to give them another $265,000 in tax cuts, the top 1% does not need more tax cuts. and i just think this is the most hypocrite call effort to talk about the budget deficit while you hand away trillions more. >> let's look at the picture of this. as much as president obama wants to extend the bush tax cuts, the fact is there's a difference between what the gop's plan is and what president obama's plan is. it is so clear on this graph that if budgets are moral documents, if our tax policy is an ethical document, these are the ethics. this is who the gop thinks deserves a break in this country today. up next, we'll talk a bit about president obama's special she werea to the middle class. what is his middle class story? where does it come fro
romney who opposed the bailout of gm which would have destroyed a whole lot of the middle class in michigan, but more importantly i think he's endorse it is paul ryan budget, which is the most devastatingly irresponsible budget and unjust budget. they are proposing not only to continue the bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. over 125 each, but to give them another $265,000 in tax cuts, the top 1% does not need more tax cuts. and i just think this is the most hypocrite call effort...